Update: John MacArthur was quoted in saying this from the pulpit yesterday....which was followed by cheering and laughter...."There's never been a time when the world didn't need the message of the true churches.....I have to say, 'true church.' I hate to think of that but there's so many false forms of the church. Let them shut down." So now we are not true Christians if we do not bow down to Donald Trump. God has warned us ever so increasingly over the past few decades...but we now are at the stage where we laugh at his warnings. Upheavals....viruses...a potential world war....these are now nothing but....fake warnings....from God's fake ministers.....the enemies of the people. My prayer continues to be this...."may God have mercy upon us for our dalliances....and open our eyes to Donald Trump."
The following post is from October 30th of last year....when we were riding high...and Donald Trump was predicting that our best was yet to come. The preface directly below is from earlier this year. Franklin Graham continues to infuse his ministry with politics. Donald Trump is and has been his whole life....a destroyer....but we will not read of this....because he has already destroyed our discernment. I saw a clip of an interview with Mary Trump. I'm not sure who brought it up but she was questioned as to how she must be surprised that her book did not make more waves than it has. When Too Much...And Never Enough first came out she made a comment that was in the past tense....on bringing Donald Trump down. I thought it odd at the time....for she does not know the makeup of Trump supporters....and this is what she was questioned on in the interview. I could have told her that we do not read anything that criticizes our lord and savior Donald Trump. Her book would be read by others....but not the ones who needed to read it. (please read the paragraph in my DISPATCHES post that is highlighted Tucker Carlson....and concerns John MacArthur....and opening his church....of which Franklin Graham tweeted the address....and the time of the service....and tweeted...."I urge you to go!") John MacArthur statements have been along the line of...."We will not bow to Caesar"....but he is indeed bowing to Caesar....in Donald Trump.....for it has been Trump's refusal to take this virus seriously....and making a political issue of it.....to keep him in power....feeding his self-love that Christians should long ago have recognized....and run from....that has made the situation so much worse. MacArthur says that there will be 1000 seats available outside the church for people who would feel more comfortable.....what is the difference between seats outside the church....and Internet streaming? This is a tough post to write....but we are in trouble....a wolf in sheep's clothing has entered the sheep's pen....not using the gate....and the least of this trouble we are in is being told to have patience and keep limits on church attendance until we are certain what is going on with this virus.
Preface: So another person....this time the Secretary of the Navy....goes down primarily because he became involved with President Trump....the man who evangelicals want to be president for four more chaotic years....but are unaware that even the evangelical church has suffered greatly while putting its trust in him. Consider Ann Coulter....a best-selling author many times over....who now seems utterly confused as to where she stands. (her confused state began with In Trump We Trust....E Pluribus Awesome) You may be aware of who James Rickards is....another best-selling author.....a geopolitical economics expert and analyst.....who I posted on a number of times....but who I no longer even recognize since he boarded the Trump train....or Rush who may keep his audience but has lost his intellectual gravitas in becoming the president's Baghdad Bob....or General Mattis or John Bolton....or Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows....or Lindsey Graham.....or Rudy....and on and on and on....dozens upon dozens of names. This all because we....let Trump be Trump....instead of holding him accountable!
Supporting Donald Trump in the manner that some nationally known Christian ministers are championing is incongruous to the gospel they proclaim. The two positions are inconsistent with each other. Donald Trump's message....his real message of power and greed....is antithetical to the message of the gospel....but there is more that has to be added to explain this conundrum.
Franklin Graham has gone off the rails in what he believes is a defense of America's God-fearing heritage. I understand how this can happen. We....by 'we' I mean evangelicalism in America....we struggled with the anti-God movement in America for decades.....myself anyway.....others for over a half century. It was natural in 2016 to rejoice when the Clinton/Obama legacy was challenged and beaten....but there is really no excuse for what happened next.
I listened only a few minutes ago to an interview by Eric Metaxas of Franklin Graham....two good men....Franklin's efforts in his ministry of Samaritan's Purse having been an extraordinary blessing to millions in need....but both men are blinded to who Donald Trump really is. The Rev. Graham has thus essentially said..."I shall accept the leader God has given....but I shall not entertain any warnings from the brethren on why God may have given him to us!" Now you he might bring up the fact that Franklin Graham has spent a lot of time with Donald Trump.....where I certainly haven't? True....but back in early 2017....when it became obvious that the now President Trump was not who he had told us that he was....I began reading on the man Donald Trump. Previously to this.....like most of us....I had known very little about him....he built towers....he had three glamorous wives......he ran casinos....and he had a popular television show.
I'm over fifty books now folks. (over seventy as of today) How many has Franklin Graham read.....probably none. So I see one very consistent life that has not changed one iota in the past four years. This is one horribly profane man with a number of serious psychological pathologies that in itself should exclude Donald Trump for any consideration of four additional years.....but Franklin Graham is not aware of any of this. Donald Trump will at any time and on any issue meet with someone and take on a persona that is a benefit to him only. It will be lies....flatteries....and manipulation! So I would expect him to make pious statements.....and as soon as the meeting is done return to his narcissistic mania.
In this interview the Rev. Graham said that he believes that the opposition to President Trump is demonic. His argument is that President Trump has done so much for the economy....and that money generated has provided more giving to the church. What he missed here is that conservatives fought valiantly against the economically restrictive policies of the Obama administration. We wanted a conservative candidate....any one of which on that podium in 2015/16 would have removed the restrictive barriers. Donald Trump is not the source of these economic statistics....but he ingeniously and malevolently took the sole credit for them.....and we believed him! He is now the king of debt....after ranting on debt to win the White House! Brothers and sisters in Christ....these statistics are more than fleeting! The stock market could.....and probably will....be in a tailspin in the near future.....in which in pure Donald Trump fashion.....he will blame on others....when it will have been partially because of his risky ventures in both foreign and domestic policy....all in the quest for ungodly profit....that brought down this idol of greed.
Everything Franklin Graham described President Trump as in this interview was wrong. Donald Trump is indeed a politician...of the very worst kind. He does not keep his word....as he can turn on a dime whenever something benefits him at that moment. He is not building America great again....for this definition of greatness that we have is terribly skewed....as our problems are infinitely more involved than economic statistics and military expenditures. He is not "a good guy!" He is indeed doing all this for money and fame. He is not only not honest....he is the antithesis of honesty. So Franklin got all of this wrong because he does not know Donald Trump.
To conservatives here....Donald Trump does not care about the immigration issue. He was totally pro open borders not that long ago. He did nothing for two years until the fall of 2018 when talk radio relayed to him that he is in trouble. He only wants these conservatives judges....of which we would have had with any other of the candidates....to strengthen his economic agenda. He doesn't really care about Israel. The embassy move was strategically planned....as was the Golan Heights....and the more recent settlements issue. He had cozied up to corruption his whole business life and now claims that corruption in the Ukraine was his concern. He was pro-abortion not that long ago....and made the switch because he had to. His own daughter....after he was elected.....tried to make a deal with Planned Parenthood. Nothing about this man is real....but he has successfully won us over. "Bringing our troops home' is a ruse. He only spouts that because it costs money....and if the money is to made by sending them....he'll send them.
Will he defend an ally if attacked? If he can swing it yes. If he politically has to yes. If he in any way get out of it.....yes again. He has no passionate beliefs in this area.....for he is amoral....in love only with his own image....but the patriotic words will always be there in the rallies....and we will buy them. The last thing he was going to do in the 60s was go into the service. He joked about it.
Franklin Graham was passionate in the interview in that this impeachment inquiry is a "travesty".....a travesty that it is terribly dividing America. Folks....Donald Trump is a divider and a destroyer by nature. He is the travesty....and the impeachment inquiry is not only legitimate.....it is necessary.....for if he is given an additional four years....he will need none of us....and not Franklin Graham either. He would rather the nation burn with anger than see his glory destroyed.
Well....Franklin Graham is right on one thing.....God put Donald Trump in office....but for what reason? This is end-times related folks.....as is everything going in Israel right now. Making America great again was a terrible mistake of which evangelicals refused to critique.....failing to see that we also are guilty for what America has become. Yes we are against abortion and other such issues but we are mired in mud of this world....in our own ways.....as are all the others. Our discernment is shot.....our pulpits are at best sound asleep. One should have to look no further than Joel Osteen's popularity to see that our Christian moorings are gone and we are adrift.
We think....no we are adamant....that we will rebuild....that we will make America great again....but God has told us that He will just tear down again. Common sense alone should tell us where this world is headed irrespective of any political parties. There is a winnowing coming.....and Franklin Graham will certainly be on the right side when it does....at the front of this remnant whereas I will be in the back....but as for now he has been deceived. We are all struggling to get our bearings as this freight train of deception and delusion barrels down towards a broken track. The answer never was that Donald Trump was going to be our savior. The answer is that in Donald Trump we should see ourselves....our frailties....and use this travesty of division in America to awaken us....not politically....but spiritually.....of which Franklin Graham himself speaks. We are not to defend this man who has brought this ire upon himself....who in the process has also divided us....but to once again defend that which is our only hope....and proclaim Jesus Christ to the world....and to Donald Trump....not in a milquetoast gospel that only encourages him in his arrogance....but that he has his whole life profanely rejected any true gospel that may have been presented to him....and that God will not be mocked.....there will be no polls taken at his judgment....no Rush Limbaugh to tell how wonderful he is....and no famous ministers to write a recommendation.
Supporting Donald Trump in the manner that some nationally known Christian ministers are championing is incongruous to the gospel they proclaim. The two positions are inconsistent with each other. Donald Trump's message....his real message of power and greed....is antithetical to the message of the gospel....but there is more that has to be added to explain this conundrum.
Franklin Graham has gone off the rails in what he believes is a defense of America's God-fearing heritage. I understand how this can happen. We....by 'we' I mean evangelicalism in America....we struggled with the anti-God movement in America for decades.....myself anyway.....others for over a half century. It was natural in 2016 to rejoice when the Clinton/Obama legacy was challenged and beaten....but there is really no excuse for what happened next.
I listened only a few minutes ago to an interview by Eric Metaxas of Franklin Graham....two good men....Franklin's efforts in his ministry of Samaritan's Purse having been an extraordinary blessing to millions in need....but both men are blinded to who Donald Trump really is. The Rev. Graham has thus essentially said..."I shall accept the leader God has given....but I shall not entertain any warnings from the brethren on why God may have given him to us!" Now you he might bring up the fact that Franklin Graham has spent a lot of time with Donald Trump.....where I certainly haven't? True....but back in early 2017....when it became obvious that the now President Trump was not who he had told us that he was....I began reading on the man Donald Trump. Previously to this.....like most of us....I had known very little about him....he built towers....he had three glamorous wives......he ran casinos....and he had a popular television show.
I'm over fifty books now folks. (over seventy as of today) How many has Franklin Graham read.....probably none. So I see one very consistent life that has not changed one iota in the past four years. This is one horribly profane man with a number of serious psychological pathologies that in itself should exclude Donald Trump for any consideration of four additional years.....but Franklin Graham is not aware of any of this. Donald Trump will at any time and on any issue meet with someone and take on a persona that is a benefit to him only. It will be lies....flatteries....and manipulation! So I would expect him to make pious statements.....and as soon as the meeting is done return to his narcissistic mania.
In this interview the Rev. Graham said that he believes that the opposition to President Trump is demonic. His argument is that President Trump has done so much for the economy....and that money generated has provided more giving to the church. What he missed here is that conservatives fought valiantly against the economically restrictive policies of the Obama administration. We wanted a conservative candidate....any one of which on that podium in 2015/16 would have removed the restrictive barriers. Donald Trump is not the source of these economic statistics....but he ingeniously and malevolently took the sole credit for them.....and we believed him! He is now the king of debt....after ranting on debt to win the White House! Brothers and sisters in Christ....these statistics are more than fleeting! The stock market could.....and probably will....be in a tailspin in the near future.....in which in pure Donald Trump fashion.....he will blame on others....when it will have been partially because of his risky ventures in both foreign and domestic policy....all in the quest for ungodly profit....that brought down this idol of greed.
Everything Franklin Graham described President Trump as in this interview was wrong. Donald Trump is indeed a politician...of the very worst kind. He does not keep his word....as he can turn on a dime whenever something benefits him at that moment. He is not building America great again....for this definition of greatness that we have is terribly skewed....as our problems are infinitely more involved than economic statistics and military expenditures. He is not "a good guy!" He is indeed doing all this for money and fame. He is not only not honest....he is the antithesis of honesty. So Franklin got all of this wrong because he does not know Donald Trump.
To conservatives here....Donald Trump does not care about the immigration issue. He was totally pro open borders not that long ago. He did nothing for two years until the fall of 2018 when talk radio relayed to him that he is in trouble. He only wants these conservatives judges....of which we would have had with any other of the candidates....to strengthen his economic agenda. He doesn't really care about Israel. The embassy move was strategically planned....as was the Golan Heights....and the more recent settlements issue. He had cozied up to corruption his whole business life and now claims that corruption in the Ukraine was his concern. He was pro-abortion not that long ago....and made the switch because he had to. His own daughter....after he was elected.....tried to make a deal with Planned Parenthood. Nothing about this man is real....but he has successfully won us over. "Bringing our troops home' is a ruse. He only spouts that because it costs money....and if the money is to made by sending them....he'll send them.
Will he defend an ally if attacked? If he can swing it yes. If he politically has to yes. If he in any way get out of it.....yes again. He has no passionate beliefs in this area.....for he is amoral....in love only with his own image....but the patriotic words will always be there in the rallies....and we will buy them. The last thing he was going to do in the 60s was go into the service. He joked about it.
Franklin Graham was passionate in the interview in that this impeachment inquiry is a "travesty".....a travesty that it is terribly dividing America. Folks....Donald Trump is a divider and a destroyer by nature. He is the travesty....and the impeachment inquiry is not only legitimate.....it is necessary.....for if he is given an additional four years....he will need none of us....and not Franklin Graham either. He would rather the nation burn with anger than see his glory destroyed.
Well....Franklin Graham is right on one thing.....God put Donald Trump in office....but for what reason? This is end-times related folks.....as is everything going in Israel right now. Making America great again was a terrible mistake of which evangelicals refused to critique.....failing to see that we also are guilty for what America has become. Yes we are against abortion and other such issues but we are mired in mud of this world....in our own ways.....as are all the others. Our discernment is shot.....our pulpits are at best sound asleep. One should have to look no further than Joel Osteen's popularity to see that our Christian moorings are gone and we are adrift.
We think....no we are adamant....that we will rebuild....that we will make America great again....but God has told us that He will just tear down again. Common sense alone should tell us where this world is headed irrespective of any political parties. There is a winnowing coming.....and Franklin Graham will certainly be on the right side when it does....at the front of this remnant whereas I will be in the back....but as for now he has been deceived. We are all struggling to get our bearings as this freight train of deception and delusion barrels down towards a broken track. The answer never was that Donald Trump was going to be our savior. The answer is that in Donald Trump we should see ourselves....our frailties....and use this travesty of division in America to awaken us....not politically....but spiritually.....of which Franklin Graham himself speaks. We are not to defend this man who has brought this ire upon himself....who in the process has also divided us....but to once again defend that which is our only hope....and proclaim Jesus Christ to the world....and to Donald Trump....not in a milquetoast gospel that only encourages him in his arrogance....but that he has his whole life profanely rejected any true gospel that may have been presented to him....and that God will not be mocked.....there will be no polls taken at his judgment....no Rush Limbaugh to tell how wonderful he is....and no famous ministers to write a recommendation.
